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The Voynich Manuscript May Have Been Decoded

MBCook sends word on a possible solution to the mystery of the Voynich Manuscript, which we last visited nearly 6 years ago. "The Voynich Manuscript has confounded attempts to decode it for nearly 100 years. A person named Edith Sherwood, who has previously suggested a possible link to DaVinci, has a new idea: perhaps the text is simply anagrams of Italian words. There are three pages of examples from the herb section of the book, showing the original text, the plaintext Italian words, and the English equivalents. Has someone cracked the code?"

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  1. This would explain a lot about Ohio politics. by John+Guilt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, that was Voynich Manuscript...that's different. Never mind.

  2. Hmm... by denzacar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wasn't Voynich Manuscript already solved by Randall Munroe?

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  3. I cracked the code years ago. by Cornwallis · · Score: 5, Funny

    It says:

    Pound pastrami, can kraut,six bagels--bring home for Emma."

  4. And it says... by halcyon1234 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis ut nibh et nunc scelerisque vestibulum non ac diam. Sed porttitor mauris a lorem tempus faucibus.

    This is a test of my new pen."

  5. Re:It Hurts by JasterBobaMereel · · Score: 5, Funny

    So she has apparently decoded a manuscript written in a language she does not read (medieval Italian) does not know what a medieval herbal looks like, is not a botanist, a linguist or anything else that would be helpful to decoding a medieval manuscript of any kind .....

    For her next trick she will disprove Einstein, and prove the world is flat .....

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  6. Re:Debunked almost a year ago by Culture20 · · Score: 5, Funny

    now it just brings out the "Dan Brown is the realz" crowd and other conspiracy nutters.

    Dan Brown IS real. You Dan Brown deniers are the real conspiracy nuts. "It's a ghost-writer" "It's plagiarized from aliens" "My dog is Dan Brown" Nutters all.